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'Raid-a-Lago': Legal experts speculate which of Trump's actions prompted FBI search at Mar-a-Lago

Former President Donald Trump revealed in a statement that the FBI was raiding his home at his Mar-a-Lago club.

"They even broke into my safe," Trump revealed in a statement released.

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'It's never good': Michael Cohen responds to revelations Trump was raided by FBI

Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen was the unfortunate target of the Republican leader's attacks and retaliation, but on Monday evening he learned that his former client was falling under a raid of his own.

It was reported Monday evening that Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago was under a raid from the FBI. Trump even released in a statement, "they even broke into my safe."

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Anne Heche is now in a coma and on a ventilator: reps

Anne Heche's representative has announced that she is currently in critical condition and in a coma. The actress has a collapsed lung necessitating a ventilator, TMZ reported.

"Shortly after the accident, Anne Heche became unconscious, slipping into a coma and is in critical condition. She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention," the rep said.

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Trump aide with special insight into Ron DeSantis could helm Trump's 2024 campaign

Susie Wiles is a veteran of Donald Trump's presidential campaigns and helped him win Florida in 2016 and making him competitive in the state in 2020. Now people are saying she's a top contender to helm Trump's potential 2024 campaign, CNN reports.

" Trump world is dynamic and volatile and innovative and ever-changing, and Susie is the rock," said Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz.

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The man who sent feces to Jim Jordan and other GOP lawmakers was a former Ohio court mediator

When Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other Republican lawmakers got feces in the mail, the police began an investigation into the harmless prank. Now, the man who sent the poo has been arrested and identified as a former court mediator.

According to the Trib Live, police arrested 77-year-old Richard Steinle, from Mogadore, Ohio on Friday under charges of sending “injurious articles as nonmailable." According to the report, the poo, while organic, can somehow cause injury and is a hazardous material and thus is a federal violation.

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John Oliver speculates what Alex Jones' text messages said that we didn't know about

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver did a summary of the week of the Alex Jones trial that ultimately ended up making the InfoWars founder the laughingstock of the internet for several days.

Oliver began by highlighting the awkward exchange between Jones and the judge in his case who told Jones that he had to stop chewing gum in her courtroom. Jones made a comment about massaging his gums with his tongue and offered to show the judge the inside of his mouth.

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Michigan Republican candidate for attorney general falls under special prosecutor probe for election machine meddling

Former President Donald Trump announced his endorsement for Matthew DePerno in the Michigan attorney general race, but now he's falling under a special prosecutor's investigation called by the attorney general Reuters reported on Sunday.

"The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno ... examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigan’s Roscommon County," said the report. "The Richfield security breach is one of four similar incidents being investigated by Michigan's current attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel. Under state law, it is a felony to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment."

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'This is going to hurt Republicans': Molly Jong-Fast nails GOP candidates for calling their elections 'rigged'

A slate of Republican candidates who lost their primaries is attacking members of their own party, claiming that the elections are "rigged" because they lost.

In all elections, there are losers, but that fact has caused consternation among GOP officials even in races against their own people. Ryan Kelley, Tina Petters, Kandiss Taylor, Jason Warner and Mark Finchem are among the Republicans complaining about their losses. Taylor, in particular, won just 3.4 percent of the vote, yet she thinks she is entitled to the win.

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Mitt Romney blasts 'reprehensible' Alex Jones — as Democrats say $49 million isn't enough punishment

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), no stranger to conservative politics, told Raw Story over the weekend that "there is a human cost to lying and spreading falsehoods." That's exactly what Jones was charged with doing, lying to such a degree that it resulted in the harm to the Newtown, Connecticut families.

On Friday, Jones was ordered to pay almost $50 million in damages to the family of Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old child who was shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Jones perpetuated "questions" about whether Lewis was real, leading to his parents sobbing to the jury that their son was real and that they have been forced to fight for their safety while grieving his loss thanks to Jones.

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Missouri AG who pitifully tried to sue China now targets financial giant Morningstar for giving 'woke' advice

Missouri Atty. Gen. Eric Schmitt announced last week he is investigating financial services giant Morningstar and its subsidiary Sustainalytics Inc. on the bizarre theory that its advocacy of “woke” investing defrauds consumers.

Schmitt, who won the Republican primary last Tuesday to seek the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt, has been one of the nation’s most MAGA-pandering attorneys general in the nation. He is attempting to carve out new wingnut turf with an unprecedented legal assault on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.

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'You just can't let it go?' CNN host fact-checks Trumper twice after he claims the inflation bill was useless

CNN host Pamela Brown refused to allow Donald Trump appointee David Urban to lie on her show about the Inflation Reduction Act that was just passed by Democrats only in a partisan vote in the Senate.

Urban told Brown that the trillions of dollars that will help inflation, deal with climate change disasters, incentivize Americans who want to buy electric vehicles and a slew of other things is not free. Republicans argue that it will make U.S. inflation worse, and Brown conceded that economists are split on whether it would help inflation. When the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office scored it, they called it a revenue gain for the government.

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Former ethics czar warns of 'pattern of obstruction of justice possible the DOJ' must investigate in Secret Service

President Barack Obama's former ethics czar and Trump impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen told CNN that the revelations this week that many of the same agents whose communications were completely deleted from Jan. 5 and 6 were also the same people conducting a whisper campaign against Trump administration aide Cassidy Hutchinson after she testified to the House Select Committee.

"It's a very troubling pattern," Eisen explained. "You know, if you see one or two instances of records missing around a critical set of events, you say, well, maybe it's a coincidence."

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Biden denounces killings of four Muslims in Albuquerque as police ask for public's help

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday deplored the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico, which police say may be linked.

"I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque," the US president said on Twitter.

"While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims' families, and my Administration stands strongly with the Muslim community. These hateful attacks have no place in America."

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